The public will get a chance to tour B Reactor, the main attraction of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park’s Hanford site, before it is shut down for repairs later this year.

The U.S. Department of Energy plans to open the historic B Reactor at the Hanford nuclear reservation to the public on Saturdays this spring. Plans are still tentative and more information will be ...

For those unfamiliar with the area, there’s a lot of information to take in. The B Reactor at the Hanford site was the world’s first full-scale nuclear reactor. Here, scientists and engineers ...

B Reactor tour Hanford, Wash. Hanford's B Reactor, which is celebrating 70 years since its first start-up, is where plutonium was enriched for the first atomic bomb test at the Trinity site in New ...

Another month of tours of historic B Reactor on the Hanford nuclear site will be offered before tours close at least through 2025. Once construction starts, possibly as soon as August, tours will ...

HANFORD SITE — A clock centered high on a big control panel inside the B Reactor National Historic Landmark says it's 10:48. At this particular time, it isn't. The actual time during this part ...

As the birthplace of the world's first full-scale nuclear reactor, Hanford witnessed unprecedented human achievements in science, technology and engineering. That first unit, the B Reactor ...

Tucked away in the desert at the Hanford site northwest of Richland is the historic B Reactor, the world’s first full-scale nuclear reactor built during World War II to develop the atomic bomb.

The one on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in southeast Washington was the first full-scale nuclear reactor in the world. The B Reactor features hundreds of nozzles capping the metal process tubes ...